BETWEEN 120 and 130 civilians held in internment camps in Kinshasa since last year are due to arrive in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Sunday evening, a Rwandan government spokesman said. Most are Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) citizens of Rwandan origin, but some are Rwandan nationals, Nicholas Shaalita, spokesman for Rwandan Vice President and Defence Minister Paul Kagame, said. “They were not prisoners — the (DR) Congolese government interned them for their own security,” he said. The flight was being organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Shaalita added. “The ICRC asked these interned civilians where they wanted to go if they left the DRC and they chose to come to Rwanda,” he said. “We have a tradition of openness and welcome for people who are threatened or persecuted.”